Kings: pilot episode

[loligo]

Please please please tell me that someone else is watching this. Please tell me that I am not hallucinating that Bible AU fanfic is on my TV. I'm only one hour into the two-hour pilot, and I am in LOOOOOOOVE

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[tavella]

Is it interesting in any other way, for those with no Bible interest? It looked like yet another Show About White Guys to me, which I'm really bored with these days.

[loligo]

It's hard for me to say. For example, Rev. Samuels, a minister who has a conflicted relationship with the king, is this universe's version of the prophet Samuel. He's played by an African-American (or Black British?) actor. If I didn't know anything about the underlying mythology, I would think that that was a throw-away role, the kind of advisor/sidekick role (with bonus religion!) that PoC actors always get stuck with.

But, dude, he's the prophet Samuel! In the Bible he's as important as King Saul if not more so. He has a backstory that starts all the way back in childhood, and he gets preached about in sermons all the time. So he feels like a major character, in a way that he wouldn't necessarily if I came to the pilot with no background knowledge.

FWIW, the secondary characters are quite diverse, racially, and it's hard to tell which of them might end up becoming important.

[em_h]

I had a meeting, but I taped it! I'll get back to you!

[riarambles]

Do you follow roga, an Israeli ex-West-Winger? I think you'd recognize her former name (which I will not out, but she'll tell you if you ask) from The West Thing list. In any case, reading her will lead you to the squee you seek.

[oneeyethedrd]

Damn, I meant to watch that! I'd been looking forward to it from seeing the ads, but I guess I completely blanked on it last night. Guess I'll have to find the pilot somewhere online and try to catch the next ep.

[se_parsons]

I'm watching it, too. Or, at least TIVOing it. I'm glad other folks thoguht they'd give it a chance, too.